







篓 is written in 15 strokes, following the standard Chinese stroke order. Start from the radical ⺮, then complete the remaining strokes.
Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.
篓 is a phono-semantic compound: ⺮ (bamboo) carries the meaning, while 娄 indicates the sound.
Radical: ⺮ + 9 more strokes
lǒu篓

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Open the tool →篓 (lǒu) means “A basket or creel” in Chinese.
篓 is pronounced lǒu in Mandarin Chinese.
篓 has 15 strokes.
篓 is written in 15 strokes, starting from the radical ⺮. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 篓 is ⺮, and 篓 is a phono-semantic compound.